The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


JOHN MOORE, of Kings River, Ark was bap-
TIED the other day at the mature age Of 49,
THE people of Stratford, Can, woke up the
other morning and found that some one had
painted every dog in town pale pink.
A LEARNED TRAMP, named Samuel Wytton-
bach has been delivering prohibition lectures
at Dresden, Tenn. He is supposed to be insane
A EAUvoo QLI.) MAN went to the well in the
| dark to get drink. Feeling something strike
| his tongue no closed his teeth in time to catch
snake several inches in length
| In LANCASTER Pa, last week one of a gang of
colored hod carriers fell while descending the
ladder, but, luckily, was caught in the hod of
| fellow workman ahead of HIM, and enabled 10
| regain hold on the ladder.
RoGERsvu.LE, Tenn, had sensation last
week. A addressed man passed through the
village in a buggy, having with him beautiful
| young lady who was tied in the vehicle The
man was making for Virginia. He was well
| armed and nobody attempted to rescue the
| damSel.
AT Scranton, baby carriage which had been
| left standing on the sidewalk by its juvenile at
| tendant while he gaEed in show window, was
| started off by gnst of wind, and rolled beneath
| the feet of horse. The animal kicked the lit
| tie vehicle to pieces, but luckily didn't inJure
| the child occupant III the least
AT the grounds of the Texas State Fair at
Dallas there is exhibited freak of nature, it
being a bullock with the hind half of a calf
| grown out of its right shoulder. The parent
lies his right side to give the calf chance to
| rest its weary legs. The muscular action of the
| calf seems to be independent of its parent.
NEAR Tomarora ILL.,, little child was set in
| its high chair at the table while its mother was
| getting dinner. chicken came in at the door
| and flew upon the table The father threw
case knife at the chicken; the knife glanced and
| struck the child in the forehead, cutting cash
| near the temple from which the child died in
| about week.
CAT gave birth to two kittens in a hens nest
| In San Antonio. One of the oldest matronly
| fowls of the establishment after fight with
| the mother of the kits drove her off and took
| charge of the young felineS. The hen cuddled
! them to her breast and when she clucks the
kittens have learned to hover under her wings
for protection.
The various computations of the amount
| spent yearly in this country liquor are very
| curious One speaker at temperance meeting
| at Brockton, Mass, the other night asserted
| that from the sum spent every year on liquor a
| thousand ST. gold pieces might be put on each
| word in the Bible, and that even then there
| would be S56,00O to spare.
| SOMETHING of recent manufacture is the lad
| Unstable boot BY means of a patent device,
| which in itself is ornamental, the shoe gives
| with every movement of the foot; it is said a
| person can with perfect ease wear a boot of
this description a half size smaller than in those
| of the ordinary kind. This will commend them
| to people who are sensitive about the size OF
| their feet.
| ALTHOUGH many Italians come to this coun-
try the Uuited States is not the favorite settling
| place for italian emigrants The Latin colonies
| of South America seem to offer greater attrac-
| lions. OF 107, 829 persons who left Italy last
year to settle in foreign lands only 26, go came
to this country, or about one out of six. Thirty
| six thousand five hundred went to the Argen
| tine Republic, and II 1874 to Brazil.
THE dialect of the New York Whyo Gang is
| Choctaw to the unnitiated For instance, a
| schooner of beer is basin, month in Jail is
| "a stone'' week is "a brick" and the favorte
oath of some of the blackguards is, IF did
| dat, may l be as low me mudder." AS a
| matter of fact the parents of the ruffians are
| in the majority of instances, Woodworking peo-
| pie, who weep over the evil ways Of their sons
| IT is UNDERSTOOD that syndicate is being
| formed for the publication of some letters about
| the late Henry Ward Beecher, in which many
| persons in whom he had confidence, but for
| whom others closer to him harbored nothing but
| distrust, are to be severely dealt with. There
were half dozen chques in Plymouth church
| and one or two cliQues of Beecher admirers out
side the church The soiled linen that accumu
| lated now forms an immense basket.
| A TELEGRAPH OPERATOR no matter how ex-
| pert he may be, becomes in time a sort of ma
| chine. In sitting long hours at his instrument
| listening to the monotonous tick of his sounder
| becomes deaf to reason, and perpetrates bulls
| that, in his waking senses Ike knows to be wrong
| Here is one that caused considerable conSterna-
| ton in New York family. AS the operator re-
| ceved it it read: 'Unclean Gus died to-day"
| It should have read: Uncle Angus died to-
day."
THE mite of a baby recently born to Ida
| Stevenson, a mulutto woman in Cairo, ILL.,, was
| found by accurate measurements to have the
1 foil tn
| heel II inches; length of foot 2 inches; knee to
| side of foot, 319 inches; length of hand, "a
inches; circumference of ankle. 198 inches;
| length of middle finger, 9-15 of an inch; circum
| ference of wrist, 1916 of an nch chest. So
| inches; weight, 14 pounds. The midget is
bright, cries loudly and will live
THE "stogie" is derived from the old Cones
| toga wagons, which used to be so numerous on
the old national pike. The drivers of these
| wagons were in the habit of buying cheap,
strong cigars, and being heavy smokers kept
| asking for a cheaper cigar than was then made.
| Over at Washington, Pa, a cigarmaker, in
answer to this demand for cheaper cigars,
evolved a long, slender roll of tobacco, which he
| offered to the drivers at the rate of four for q
| cent. The new cigar became popular among the
mail drivers and freighters, and was called the
| ConeStoga cigar, abbreviated afterward to
"stoga, and later to ''stogie.'
A FEW days ago E. c. LOOMS and his wife
| of Burlington, VT, celebrated the 55th anniver-
| Sa1y OF thelr wedding. 1Dey nave lived unln-
teruptedly in one house from the day of their
| marriage, The house has been standing ninety
! seven years, and some of the first clapboards
| used in its construction remain on the gables
| In this house Prince Edward Duke of Kent
father of Queen Victoria, spent three days in
1893 He had been commanding regiment of
| British troops in Canada, and passed through
| Burlington in February, 1893, on his way to Bos-
| ton, where he was to take ship His party re-
quired thirteen sIeighs for themselves and bag
cages.
AN ELDERLY WOMAN who lived at an old-world
| place called st. Ouen La Rouerie, France, re-
Gently fell i'll, and, as her friends thought, died
| The funeral took place, and as the gravedigger
was preparing to lower the coffin into the earth
| he heard means issuing from inside the lue-
| brious four boards inclosing the presumed
corpse. The grave-digger left the coffin in the
| care of the mourners and went off with his SOM
| bre story to NJ. lie Marie. That rural dgnitary
having daily donned his scarf of Office and sum
| moned the village doctor, proceeded TO the local
! Gods acre" The coffin was then opened and
| ii was discovered that the woman had just died
| from fright. having awakened from a trance to
find herself hemmed in between the terrible
deal planks.
| A SINGULAR ADVERTISEMENT attracted my at
tention the other day, says Truth. 1t was a call
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